The IZA –Institute of Labor Economics,until 2016 referred to as the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA),is a private,independent economic research institute and academic network focused on the analysis of global labor markets and headquartered in Bonn,Germany.
Employment protection legislation (EPL) includes all types of employment protection measures,whether grounded primarily in legislation,court rulings,collectively bargained conditions of employment,or customary practice. The term is common among circles of economists. Employment protection refers both to regulations concerning hiring and firing.
Maurice Kugler is a Colombian American economist born in 1967. He received his Ph.D. in economics from UC Berkeley in 2000,as well as an M.Sc. (Econ) and a B.Sc. (Econ) both from the London School of Economics. Kugler is professor of public policy in the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University. Prior to this,he worked as a consultant for the World Bank,where he was senior economist before (2010-2012). Most recently he was principal research scientist and managing director at IMPAQ International.
Joshua David Angrist is an Israeli–American economist and Ford Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Angrist,together with Guido Imbens,was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 2021 "for their methodological contributions to the analysis of causal relationships".
The Rehn–Meidner model is an economic and wage policy model developed in 1951 by two economists at the research department of the Swedish Trade Union Confederation (LO),Gösta Rehn and Rudolf Meidner. The four main goals to be achieved were:
Beatrice Weder di Mauro is a Swiss economist who is currently Professor of economics at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva,Research Professor and Distinguished Fellow-in-residence at the Emerging Markets Institute of INSEAD Singapore,and senior fellow at the Asian Bureau of Finance and Economic Research (ABFER). Since 2018,she also serves as President of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR).
William Edward Spriggs was an American economist who was a professor of economics at Howard University,chief economist for the AFL-CIO,and Assistant Secretary of Labor for Policy in the Obama administration from 2009 to 2012.
Harry Joseph Holzer is an American economist,educator and public policy analyst.
Carol Graham is the Leo Pasvolsky Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution,a College Park professor at the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland,a research fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA),and the author of numerous books,papers and edited volume chapters.
Technological unemployment is the loss of jobs caused by technological change. It is a key type of structural unemployment. Technological change typically includes the introduction of labour-saving "mechanical-muscle" machines or more efficient "mechanical-mind" processes (automation),and humans' role in these processes are minimized. Just as horses were gradually made obsolete as transport by the automobile and as labourer by the tractor,humans' jobs have also been affected throughout modern history. Historical examples include artisan weavers reduced to poverty after the introduction of mechanized looms. Thousands of man-years of work was performed in a matter of hours by the bombe codebreaking machine during World War II. A contemporary example of technological unemployment is the displacement of retail cashiers by self-service tills and cashierless stores.
The Center for Distributive,Labor and Social Studies (CEDLAS) is a research center specialising in distribution,labor and social issues in Latin America.
Katharine G. Abraham is an American economist who is a Distinguished University Professor of economics and survey methodology at the University of Maryland. She was commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics from 1993–2001 and a member of the Council of Economic Advisers from 2011–2013. She was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2022 and,in 2024,was elected to be the President-Elect and then the President of the American Economic Association.
Clair Brown is an American economist who is Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for Work,Technology,and Society at the University of California,Berkeley. Brown is a past Director of the Institute of Industrial Relations (IRLE) at UC Berkeley. Brown has published research on many aspects of how economies function,including high-tech industries,development engineering,the standard of living,wage determination,poverty,and unemployment.
Michael R. Strain is an American economist. He is currently the Director of Economic Policy Studies and the Arthur F. Burns Scholar in Political Economy at the American Enterprise Institute. He is also Professor of Practice in the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University,a research fellow at the IZA Institute of Labor Economics,and a columnist for Project Syndicate. Strain's research focuses on labor economics,macroeconomics,public finance,and social policy.
Ioana Elena Marinescu is an associate professor of public policy at the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy and Practice,a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research,and a columnist for Libération,whose research is widely covered in the popular media.
Lucia Smith Foster is the Chief of the Center for Economic Studies (CES) and the Chief Economist at the U.S Census Bureau in Washington,D.C.
C. Kirabo "Bo" Jackson is an American economist who is Abraham Harris Professor of Education and Social Policy and Professor of Economics at Northwestern University,a Fellow at the Institute for Policy Research,and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He previously served as co-editor at Journal of Human Resources and is currently on leave as Editor in Chief of the American Economic Journal:Economic Policy. In 2020,he was elected to the National Academy of Education and was awarded the David N. Kershaw Award and Prize for contributions to the field of public policy analysis and management from the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM). In 2022 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences which honors the excellence and leadership of exceptional people from all disciplines and practices. In August,2023,Jackson joined President Biden's three-member Council of Economic Advisers. He is the first Black man to hold this position.
Susan N. Houseman is an American economist who is the vice president and director of research at the W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research. She is also a member of the National Bureau of Economic Research Conference on Research on Income and Wealth,chairs the Technical Advisory Committee of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics,and co-directs the Labor Statistics Program at the IZA Institute of Labor Economics.
Nada O. Eissa is an American economist who is an associate professor of Public Policy and Economics at Georgetown University and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). She was Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy (microeconomics) in 2005–2007.
Marcela X. Escobari is a Bolivian-American government official and diplomat who is serving as an immigration advisor in the National Security Council. Prior to her NSC position she served as the Assistant Administrator of the Latin American and Caribbean Bureau at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) from January 2022 to April 2024. She previously worked as a Senior Fellow in the Center for Sustainable Development at the Brookings Institution in Washington,D.C.,where she led the Workforce of the Future initiative.
